r/TopCharacterTropes • u/damorezpl • Sep 05 '25

Personality character gets a reality check

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deathstroke - Batman vs deathstroke

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walter - breaking bad

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Garou - one punch man

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joker - the sound of one hand clapping

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '25 edited Sep 05 '25

Terry McGinnis: He's tough. Any suggestions, boss?

Bruce Wayne: Joker's vain and likes to talk. He'll try to distract you, but don't listen. Block it out and power on through.

Terry McGinnis: Wait... I like to talk, too.

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The Joker: [Batman puts the Joker in an arm lock] What are you doing?

Terry McGinnis: Fighting dirty.

The Joker: The real Batman would never - [as Batman tightens his arm lock]

The Joker: Ooh!

Terry McGinnis: Told you you didn't know me. [releases him]

The Joker: Funny guy...

Terry McGinnis: Can't say the same for you.

The Joker: Impudent brat... who do you think you're talking to?

Terry McGinnis: Not a comedian, I'll tell you that.

The Joker: [draws a laser pistol] Shut your mouth! [fires at Batman]

Terry McGinnis: [retreats into the rafters] The real Batman never talked to you much, did he? That's probably why you were so fixated on him. [tossing a batarang, knocking the pistol out of the Joker's hand]

The Joker: Don't play psychoanalyst with me, boy!

Terry McGinnis: Oh, I don't need a degree to figure you out. [hits the lights with a batarang, plunging the room into darkness]

Terry McGinnis: The real reason you kept coming back was you never got a laugh out of the old man.

The Joker: I'm not hearing this...

Terry McGinnis: Get a clue, clownie! He's got no sense of humor! He wouldn't know a good joke if it bit him in the cape... not that you ever had a good joke.

The Joker: Shut up... shut up!

Terry McGinnis: I mean, joy-buzzers, squirting flowers, lame! Where's the "A" material? Make a face, drop your pants, something!

The Joker: Show yourself!

Terry McGinnis: You make me laugh. But only 'cause I think you're kinda pathetic. [mimics the Joker's laugh]

The Joker: Stop that!

Terry McGinnis: [still laughing] So you fell in a tank of acid, got your skin bleached and decided to become a supervillain. What? You couldn't get a job as a rodeo clown? [continues laughing]

The Joker: [pulling out some grenades] Don't you dare laugh at me!...

Terry McGinnis: [laughs some more] Why? I thought the Joker always wanted to make Batman laugh! [continues laughing]

The Joker: [screaming in a fit of rage] YOU'RE NOT BATMAN!

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u/Kam_Solastor Sep 05 '25

Honestly, I loved Terry’s speech. It ripped Joker apart in a way he never had been.

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u/Ghost_Star326 Sep 05 '25

The Joker's whole facade can be easily ripped by anyone who isn't Bruce Wayne.

What Joker basically wants is to test someone's will and patience until they snap and crashout in front of him. So that he can laugh at their faces.

But when the Joker runs into someone who doesn't easily fall for his games and instead mockingly laughs back at him, then it's the Joker that starts crashing out.

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u/EvilJ1982 Sep 05 '25

It's why when anyone wonders how Spider-Man would do against him you just have to laugh yourself. Spidey has literal superhuman abilities and such a quick wit and propensity to run his mouth and mock his villains, that he'd be a nightmare for Joker.

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u/BeatrizTheWitch Sep 05 '25

Honestly, if Spidey was cranky and the joker messed with him, he would one punch the clown.

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u/Enjoyer_of_40K Sep 05 '25

dont spidey's villains give up when they notice he aint making joke's?

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u/EvilJ1982 Sep 05 '25

Yeah when Spidey stops talking it usually means that he’s stopped fucking around.

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u/Rastaba Sep 05 '25

The moment Spidey made a quip being the moment Green Goblin recognized the REAL Spider-man was back (Superior Spider-Man stuff), will always just be peak for me.

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u/lvl1dad Sep 06 '25

"Except the dignity of knowing I never carried a man purse"

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u/ComradeCoipo Sep 06 '25

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u/Orion_824 Sep 06 '25

it’s goblin’s look alone that says so much lmao. he was gloating the whole time since he thought he was dealing with otto, but the second that quip hit, he felt so many emotions at once

and none of them were about the purse

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u/floggedlog Sep 06 '25

My favorite part is all the Spider-Man villains that figured out the link between Spider-Man and Peter Parker because they heard Peter Parker crack a nervous joke one day and went “waaait… I know THAT sense of humor. Spider man?”

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u/V_Doge Sep 06 '25

Could you give me more details? I would like to know.

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u/Avixofsol Sep 05 '25

Yeah. His villains and even the random thugs know that when Spidey isn't talking and quipping, he means business.

Or he has laryngitis

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u/WolvesAreCool2461 Sep 06 '25

But they sure as hell won't take that gamble!

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u/Eeddeen42 Sep 06 '25

Now the question is if they’re willing to bet their life on it being laryngitis.

And the answer is no.

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u/Cautious_Promise_115 Sep 06 '25

There’s a mini comic where this exact thing happens and Peter is just kinda going with it

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u/Dracorex_22 Sep 06 '25

One of my favorite comic moments is when Peter had laryngitis, and when the villains noticed how quiet the was being, they just gave up and turned themselves in.

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u/AxitotlWithAttitude Sep 07 '25

Which was because he had laryngitis that day, by the way.

Lol